| 362 sider
...property to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of ours to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the brave chieftains' faces. The slave of yesterday becomes the master... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1823 - 1256 sider
...to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...country from sea to sea. Very often they seize the wives VOL. II. Y n OOK an^ daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before VI. the great chieftain's... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1823 - 580 sider
...to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of ourmen to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...country from sea to sea. Very often they seize the wive* VOL. II. t BOOK .i" ' daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before VI. the great... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1830 - 414 sider
...a sermon by Lupus, a Saxon bishop. " Such is their valour, that one of them, •will put ten of us to flight : two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians from sea to sea. They seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and violate them before the chieftain's... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1836 - 626 sider
...to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the great chieftain's face. The slave of yesterday becomes the master of... | |
| George Robert Gleig - 1836 - 484 sider
...a contemporary writer: — " Such is their (the Danes') valour, that one of them will put ten of us to flight ; two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians from sea to sea. The slave of yesterday becomes the master of his lord to-day. Soldiers, famine, flames,... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - 1836 - 484 sider
...from a sermon by Lnpus, a Saxon bishop. " Such is their valor, that one of them will put ten of us to flight: two or three will drive a troop of captive Christians from sea to sea. They seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and violate them before the chieftain's... | |
| Britons - 1839 - 186 sider
...to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...the country from sea to sea. Very often they seize, and cruelly abuse the wives and daughters of our thanes. The slave of yesterday becomes the master... | |
| John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1839 - 480 sider
...Ethelred the Unready, says, in one of his Sermons, speaking of the Danes, "Two or three will always drive a troop of captive Christians through the country, from sea to sea. This also clearly intimates, that the Danes at this period still remained pagans, at least the greatest... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1840 - 384 sider
...to their ships. Such is their successful valour, that one of them will in battle put ten of our men to flight. Two or three will drive a troop of captive...they seize the wives and daughters of our thanes, and cruelly violate them before the great chieftain's face. The slave of yesterday becomes the master of... | |
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